The pitch for NBC's new drama Rise is pretty simple: Friday Night Lights meets Glee. Add in that the show was co-created by FNL's Jason Katims from the best-selling non-fiction book "Drama High" and you should have a recipe for success. Still, the show, which follows a drama program in a small town thrown into upheaval by some big city ideas from... Read more

If you're still riding a Greta Gerwig high after Lady Bird, you're gonna love Maggie's Plan. Starring Gerwig, Ethan Hawke, and Julianne Moore, the offbeat comedy follows Maggie, a woman who wants to have a baby and falls into an affair with a married professor. While things start off relatively swimmingly given the situation, the three soon find... Read more

Allied was a certifiable flop when it was released theatrically back in November 2016, earning just $119MM in worldwide box office against a budget of $85 million. Now that it's available to stream as part of your Amazon Prime and/or Hulu streaming subscription plans, though, it's time to reevaluate this WWII drama. Listen, Allied is by no means a... Read more

It is impossible to be in a bad mood while watching Garry Marshall’s rom-com classic, Pretty Woman. I’ve probably seen this movie over 50 times, and no matter the viewing circumstance, it STILL feels fresh and entertaining. I would also argue that Julia Roberts gives the most charismatic performance of her long career as hooker with a heart of ... Read more

There are few cinematic romantic partnerships as charming as Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, and 50 First Datesonly proves this point further. Six years after making us fall for them in The Wedding Singer, the duo reunites for this Hawaii-set romp in which womanizing veterinarian Henry (Sandler) decides to romance Lucy (Barrymore), who... Read more

What better way to bid farewell to Valentine's Day than with one of the best romantic comedies of the '90s? Treat yourself to The Wedding Singeron the week of its 20th anniversary and enjoy the electric chemistry of Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore as the the two play two friends engaged to the totally wrong people. Full of eternally-quotable... Read more

Successful pilot Michael Green (Andy Garcia, just beautiful here) has it all: a great job, two beautiful daughters (Tina Majorino and Mae Whitman) and the perfect, fun-loving, radiant, sexy wife, Alice (a revelatory Meg Ryan)… except for the fact that she’s a high-functioning alcoholic. After an accident at home, Alice enters rehab and gets... Read more